Software Engineer, Python with Cloud

Cisco provides solutions that power how humans and technology work together across physical and digital worlds, with a focus on security, visibility, and insights in the AI era.

• Professional software development experience, with solid knowledge of software engineering principles and practices.
• Proficiency in Python and experience building maintainable, well-tested applications or services.
• Experience developing backend services, REST APIs, automation tools, data pipelines, or internal platforms.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as containers, serverless computing, managed services, infrastructure as code, or Kubernetes.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, source control systems, automated testing, or related engineering infrastructure.
• Understanding of distributed-system concepts and API or service design.
• Experience writing automated tests and supporting software in production or production-like environments.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, including experience using logs, metrics, traces, and other diagnostic tools.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with engineers and stakeholders across different teams.
• Ability to work independently on well-defined projects while seeking guidance and feedback when appropriate.
• Experience with developer productivity, developer platforms, software development lifecycle tooling, or engineering quality initiatives is a plus.

• Participate in the complete software development lifecycle: understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate, deploy, operate, and maintain software.
• Design and build reliable backend services, APIs, automation tools, and data-processing pipelines.
• Develop and operate solutions using cloud services and cloud-native technologies.
• Partner with engineering teams, repository owners, and platform teams to introduce and improve shared tooling and standards.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
• Improve the maintainability, observability, diagnosability, performance, and reliability of the systems owned by the team.
• Investigate and resolve issues affecting development workflows, pre-production environments, and production services.
• Contribute to frameworks and standards for detecting, isolating, and remediating software and test failures.
• Write and maintain automated tests, technical documentation, operational guidance, and runbooks.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to diagnose and resolve service and integration issues when needed.